From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 06:59:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA18030 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from iglou1 (iglou1.iglou.com [192.107.41.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA18022 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 06:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from gateway.cre8tivegroup.com [204.255.227.128] by iglou1 with smtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0xL7Ue-0004lP-00; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:58:40 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 08:19:15 -0400 (EDT) Organization: The Creative Group From: Patrick Gardella To: boia01@castor.GEL.USherb.CA, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.1.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alex said: >You can also use the Linux port at: www.blackdown.org And then he wrote: >When you execute "java" or "javac", these file are actually symbolic >links to a file called ".java-wrapper". This is a shell script that >configures the environment, among other things. >The problem is that this shell script invokes a few system-related >binaries like "uname" which have different parameters on FreeBSD than on >Linux. >You can just arrange the shell script to use the proper parameters and >you won't get these anoying messages. Olaf said: >The Linux JDK from java.blackdown.org works very well with Linux emulation, >too (after tweaking bin/.java_wrapper a little). How does one go about using the linux java port? I've downloaded 1.1.3-v2 and the updater to v2-1 from blackdown. Would anyone be willing to send me a copy of their .java-wrapper? I'll try some tweaking, but shell scripting is not my strong point! Much obliged! Patrick